Category: History - British
Bailiff (_Baillif_, or _Baillie_ French; _Ballivus_, Latin; from _balliare_ to deliver, intrust, or commit,) is the name given by the Normans to those ministers of the law whom the Saxons called =gerefa=, _greve_ or _reve_[1]: an appellation which, however corruptly, we still...
Where the sheriff returned capias _quod mandavi ballivo de D. qui respondit quod cepit corpus, &c._ and hath not the body at the day, the bailiff is bound to bring in the body,...
4. CHAPTER II.By _W. 2. c. 39._ The treasurer of the exchequer shall deliver in a roll all the liberties in all shires that have return of writs. And if the sheriff answer that he hath made r...
11. CHAPTER VII.By _1 E. 3. st. 1. c. 5._ against the false return of bailiffs of franchises, which have full return of writs, a man shall have averment, and recover as well against them as aga...
13. CHAPTER IX.One may be bailiff by a simple grant (_i. e._ by parol) or patent or inheritance, and therefore no need to shew how. _H. 33. H. 6. [3.]_ _Fitz. Monstrauns de faitz, &c._ 93. and...
8. CHAPTER IV.Bailiff of a manor may pay rents issuing out of the manor, and shall have allowance, but _e contra_ where he pays debts of the lord due by contract or obligation, for this is ou...
2. BOOK II. Of the bailiff of a franchise or liberty 16Bailiff (_Baillif_, or _Baillie_ French; _Ballivus_, Latin; from _balliare_ to deliver, intrust, or commit,) is the name given by the Normans to those ministers of the law whom...
10. CHAPTER VI.If the sheriff command the bailiff of the franchise, who arrests the defendant and sends him to the sheriff, if the sheriff return no writ, the bailiff shall not be charged, for...
12. CHAPTER VIII.By _23 H. 6. c. 9._ sheriffs, undersheriffs, bailiffs of franchises, nor any other bailiff, by occasion or under colour of their office, shall take any other thing of any person...
7. CHAPTER III.By _4 E. 3. c. 9._, no sheriff, bailiff of hundred, wapentake, or franchise, shall be henceforth if they have not land sufficient in the places where they are ministers whereof...
3. CHAPTER I.Allowance of franchises in _Quo warranto_ or in Eyre shall conclude the King, for this is the suit of the King to try franchise; _contra_ of allowance in the Common Bench or oth...
6. CHAPTER II.If the King make one his bailiff of his manor, to which manor waif, stray and leet are appendant, by patent, in this case the bailiff shall have the waif, stray and leet, becaus...
5. CHAPTER I.The bailiff of a franchise or liberty is he who in a free place, or portion of a county, taken away from the power of the sheriff, executes the business of the sheriff. _Spelman._
1. BOOK I. Of a franchise or liberty 1